14 award nominations for Highland News and Media in 2024 Highlands and Islands Press Ball and Media Awards
Journalists from Highland News and Media (HNM) have earned an impressive 14 award shortlistings for the 2024 Highlands and Islands Press Ball and Media Awards.
The prestigious annual event, now in its 35th year, will be held at the Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness on Friday, February 2.
Showcasing talent from across the media industry, each year it welcomes colleagues working in print, broadcasting and online platforms from Shetland to Argyll and from Moray to the Outer Hebrides.
This year, HNM’s Inverness Courier will compete with the Oban Times and Shetland Times for newspaper of the year and with Shetland News Online and welovestornoway.com for website of the year.
It will also challenge for campaign of the year with Am Paipear and the Oban Times having set the national agenda earlier this year by pressuring the Scottish Government on broken promises surrounding the dualling of the A9.
The campaign included the coup of hosting an A9 Crisis Summit in July bringing together local interest groups, campaigners, business leaders and MSPs.
WATCH: The Inverness Courier A9 Crisis Summit in full
https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/watch-officials-put-under-pressure-at-the-inverness-courier-320848/
There will also be a lifetime achievement award and a journalist of the year award.
The complete list of finalists are as follows:
Gaelic Writer of the Year: Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul, West Highland Free Press; Calum Iain Macleod and Hugh MacInnes, Fios; Andreas G. Wolff, BBC
Photographer of the Year: Daniel Forsyth, HNM; Callum Mackay, HNM; Beth Taylor, HNM
Business Writer of the Year: David Mackay, Press & Journal; Ewan Malcolm, HNM; Peter Ranscombe, Freelance
Environment and Sustainability Writer of the Year: Chris Cope, Shetland News; Iona MacDonald, HNM; Iain MacInnes, BBC
Sport Writer of the Year: Craig Christie, HNM; Andrew Henderson, HNM; Eric Mackinnon, Stornoway Gazette
Young Reporter of the Year and Alex Main Trophy: Annabelle Gauntlett, HNM; Chloe Irvine, Shetland Times; Iona MacDonald, HNM
Reporter of the Year and Jim Love Memorial Trophy: Stuart Findlay, Press & Journal; Iain MacInnes, BBC; Val Sweeney, HNM
Feature Writer of the Year: Stuart Findlay, Press & Journal; Lauren Robertson, Press & Journal; Alistair Whitfield, HNM
Community Newspaper of the Year: The Ileach; De tha Dol; West Word
Newspaper of the Year: Inverness Courier; Oban Times; Shetland Times
Website of the Year - Inverness Courier; Shetland News Online; welovestornoway.com
Campaign of the Year - Am Paipear; Inverness Courier; Oban Times
STV’s Nicola McAlley, the awards’ head judge, said: “As with previous years, the standard was exceptionally high, and it meant we had some difficult decisions to make with much debate and deliberation over finalists and winners in each category.
“I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to enter and demonstrate again that there is a high quality of work being carried out in our vast and varied area of Scotland.”
